Matthew 10:19

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“It is given,” (Matthew 10:19) he says — a word is given to some when it is useful to make a defense, so that through the confession some may be helped and the church strengthened.

Greek

Τὸ δὲ δίδοται, φησίν, τισὶ λόγος, ὅτε συμφέρει ἀπολογεῖσθαι, ἵνα διὰ τῆς ὁμολογίας ὠφελῶνταί τινες καὶ ἰσχυροποιηθῇ ἡ ἐκκλησία.

About this text

Catena fragments on Matthew (CPG 5206). Contents follow Matthew chapter and verse. Edition fragment numbers stay in About this text and under each passage.

English follows the named copy-text (Aegean/khazarzar Migne PG 72 extract). Other prints were checked as noted; no silent merge of recensions.

Witnesses

Copy-text Migne PG 72 Commentarii in Matthaeum (Aegean Digital Patrologia / khazarzar) (Greek · CPG 5206 catena fragments (290 parsed heads))
Checked print matia.gr mirror of same Aegean extract (Greek · Byte-identical PDF; integrity check only)
Checked print Internet Archive PG 72 volume OCR (bim … 1859_72) (Greek (OCR damaged) · Locus confirmation only; not used as reading text)

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